Several new start-ups are building replicas of sites so A.I. can learn to use the internet and maybe replace white-collar workers. John Qian, a co-founder of Matrices. The new shadow sites are part of ...

Microsoft has started rolling out the new Start menu for Windows 11, which we previously did a deep dive preview on. Both versions 24H2 and the newer 25H2 of Windows 11 can use the new Start menu.

Google has issued a global security alert advising its 2.5 billion Gmail users to update their passwords following a data breach involving one of its Salesforce databases. Though consumer Gmail and ...

The latest generative AI models are not just stand-alone text-generating chatbots—instead, they can easily be hooked up to your data to give personalized answers to your questions. OpenAI’s ChatGPT ...

I've always hated the Windows 11 Start menu. For me, it's badly designed, clumsy to use, and difficult to customize. If you share my grievances, know that Microsoft has overhauled the old menu in an ...

After showing off the updated design last month, Google has very slowly started rolling out the Material 3 Expressive update for Gmail on Android, but you probably don’t have it just yet. Google ...

If you're a Gmail user, you may soon see a new prompt in your inbox—and it's not just another pop-up to click away. Google is now rolling out a privacy-related update that gives users a clear choice: ...

Google appears to be developing a “related emails” feature for Gmail. When active, emails related to the one you’re reading would appear at the bottom. It’s not yet clear how Google will choose which ...

Gmail gets EE2E as it turns 21. The greatest April Fool’s Day joke that never was has to have taken place on April 1, 2004. It was then that Google, without a hint of irony, launched what was to ...

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